Wednesday: Observe crystals and then review. I went over some common mistakes in essays and then had some practice questions in a google doc that we did in groups (used the carousel technique – groups answered question on big paper and then rotated to see if anything needed to be added/changed).

Thursday: Test

Friday: Started with organic naming and then review of Lewis structures + more advanced lewis structures (formal charge and exceptions to the octet rule). Here’s the notes including answers to organic naming.

Formal Charge (There’s lots of videos on youtube for this. Formal charge is not a real charge it is just a way for us to figure out which lewis structure is best, particularly for atoms that can have more than 8 valence electrons.)